Jenny Kleeman is granted a rare window into what happens to the bodies donated for medical education and used for surgical training.
The London Anatomy Office accepts around 350 human bodies donated for medical research and education annually. You may imagine that these bodies are presevered in chemicals for medical students to study over weeks and months. And some are. But many are used – almost fresh – to train surgeons in the procedures which may one day save your life.
Journalist Jenny Kleeman gains rare access to a surgical training course at Brighton and Sussex Medical School which uses these “fresh” donor bodies. She talks to the people who work with them every day and the surgeons who have come to be trained to find out how they feel about the people who have given the ultimate gift and if we still need real human cadavers in medical education.
Presenter: Jenny Kleeman
Producer: Ella Hubber
